James Cooley

James W. Cooley ( 1926 - June 29, 2016 ) was an American mathematician.

Education and professional career

He studied applied mathematics and received his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College, New York City in 1949 , his master's degree in 1951 and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1961 .

From 1953 to 1956 he was a programmer on John von Neumann's computer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) .

From 1956 to 1962 he worked on quantum mechanical calculations at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University , then he moved to IBM and did research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center .

After retiring in 1991, he was appointed to the University of Rhode Island , where he worked at the College of Engineering and was an associate professor on signal discovery research projects .

He received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal .

plant

His most important contribution to mathematics and digital signal processing is his algorithm for computer-aided fast Fourier transformation, which he developed together with John W. Tukey and published in 1965 .

literature

• James W. Cooley and John W. Tukey: An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series. In: Math. Comput. 19. 1965, 297-301.
• Cooley, James W., Timothy M. Toolan, and Donald W. Tufts: A Subspace Tracking Algorithm Using the Fast Fourier Transform. In: IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 11 (1): 30-32. January 2004.
• Real, Edward C., Donald W. Tufts, and James W. Cooley: Two Algorithms for Fast Approximate Subspace Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47 (7): 1936-1945. July 1999.
• Tufts, DW, EC Real and JW Cooley: Fast Approximate Subspace Tracking (FAST). In: Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. IEEE. 1997. I: 547-550.

Web links

• IEEE 2002 Kilby Medal (with photo)